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<\/a>Louise Baker pays attention to Lily Hope teaching Diane Knopp how to dress her next weaving project on the loom<\/p><\/div>\n
Ann Smith and I taught our second weaving class together in Chilkat and Ravenstail weaving during the week-long Adaka Festival in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. \u00a0 Lily Hope assisted for four days (her first time being away from her family!).<\/p>\n
<\/a>Ann Smith drafts out pattern configuration for Ravenstail design<\/p><\/div>\n
Ann Smith and I were two of Cheryl Samuel’s first students to learn Ravenstail back in 1989.\u00a0 Since then Ann has woven approximately 5 Ravenstail robes and numerous smaller weavings and has taught classes in Yukon and British Columbia.\u00a0 Ann was one of my first students in Chilkat weaving back in 1991; in fact, she inspired me to weave robes instead of weaving contemporary pieces of regalia.\u00a0 Only recently have I decided to incorporate weaving smaller items in my time line!<\/p>\n
<\/a>Clarissa demonstrates the fantastic fingering technique of her teacher\/mentor Jennie Thlunaut. L to R: Dan Shorty, Stefanie Sakinya, Diane Knopp, Andra Hunter, Clarissa, Marge Baufeld, Louise Baker, Sally Lutchman, Charlene Baker<\/p><\/div>\n
Most of the techniques and spiritual information I teach are directly from my apprenticeship with the last of the traditional master weavers, Jennie Thlunaut from Klukwan, Alaska who passed away in July 1986 two months after she taught me.\u00a0 All students who learn from me are a direct lineage of Jennie’s legacy, the most prolific Chilkat weaver of all time with 50 robes and 8 tunics.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Lily Hope demonstrates weaving techniques on Clarissa’s child-size Chilkat robe to visitors at the Adaka Festival<\/p><\/div>\n
Lily Hope has been weaving Ravenstail for nearly 10 years.\u00a0 She started weaving Chilkat weaving 4 years ago when she was an assistant teacher during one of my classes in Juneau; little did anyone know that as she was “student teaching” she was for the first time learning how to weave Chilkat!!!<\/p>\n
<\/a>Louise Baker (Tagish) measures her warp for the child-size headband using Jennie Thlunaut’s old-time technique of cutting a piece of cardboard to the length of the project, wrapping the warp loosely but evenly around the board and then cutting one end, before hanging strands on the loom<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The class is fairly full with 10 eager students<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Lily demonstrates how to “dress” your loom<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Ann helps Marge Beaufeld with her first braids while Nita Clarke whizzes away with happy anticipation of another weaving!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Charlene Baker (Whitehorse) shows Debra Michel (Atlin) the additional weaving she has on her loom – one is her first Chilkat weaving the other is her combination of Chilkat and Ravenstail (of which she is well versed).<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Debra Michel weaves her second Chilkat weaving, a dance apron she designed…<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Lily helps Zach James (Haines, AK) establish his first row of his Ravenstail pattern while Dan Shorty pays attention<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Andra Hunter and her mother, Sally Lutchman contemplate what to do next<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Stefanie Sakinya Sidney has begun another weaving project on the other side of her loom…!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Ann Smith (with her granddaughter) have fun with Nita Clarke – (let’s face it people, Chilkat and Ravenstail weaving is a lot of work, but it’s fun work!)<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Ann reminds the weavers to be mindful of keeping their “stitches” even<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Stefanie, Zach, Lily Sharon and Louise<\/p><\/div>\n